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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: Matt Harrison and Roy Oswalt both gave up 4 ER's each.Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Harry is reported to have had flu-like symptoms before game time but pitched anyway and took an IV after the game. Oswalt looked good for a while but, went back out for the 7th where he gave up the 4 runs.

Josh, Nellie, Soto and Moreland all went yard. And Josh was 3-5. Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: The Rangers seem to like August a lot better than July.

I just heard TV talking head and ex-MLBer John Kruk gush about how great the Halos are and how this race in the West will be close between the Rangers, Halos and A's down the stretch. Well, I don't know if Kruk can count but, the Rangers are 6 games up on the A's (that's right the Angels are 3rd, 6.5 GB) with less than 2 months of baseball left. And the Rangers played about as bad as they can in July and maintained their lead in the West. No respect, no respect.

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Oswalt really crapped up the place - again. Not what you want to see after his "run-in" with Wash. Maybe this will humble him again, and he can re-focus. But yes, the pitching round these parts has been questionable, at best.

Correction to the above re the standings. The Halos are 7 GB with 50 games to play; A's are 5.5 GB with 51 games to play. Meaning both teams have to make up more than 1 game in the standing for each 10 games played. Not an easy task, especially if the Rangers' play half way well down the stretch.

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